The Machine Stops

Tech Central Station sends a cruise missile against the real guilty parties in NOLA.

Nagin is also responsible for failing to pre-position generators, food and water, a medical presence and portable toilets for the two sites at the Superdome and Convention Center that he had proclaimed "emergency centers" for tens of thousands of the more than 30% of New Orleanians that lived below the poverty line. And then the Mayor failed to police them.

The rapes, murders, and needless deaths that took place in those "black holes" of New Orleans are his responsibility as well. Eighty armed policemen were too cowardly to enter the Convention Center after reports of the savagery inside as late as Sunday. Troops finally searching the Convention Center on Monday found an elderly man and a young girl, battered to death, among the corpses. New Orleans's would-be reformers thought they had elected a responsible leader in former cable executive Nagin and instead they got a classic "cable guy" with a million excuses and the same lousy service.

Of course behind all this is a dirty little secret well-known in New Orleans which is also the reason almost 30% of New Orleans police precinct members deserted during the Hurricane Katrina emergency. The police were afraid to try to enforce any kind of evacuations in the violent ghettos of a city that remains one of the most lawless in America. Anyone driving a school bus down a street in one of New Orleans's "projects" trying to enforce the mayor's evacuation order would be risking his life. Had the Mayor ordered police escorts, the desertion rate of the police would have been far higher than 30%. And that is the reason for the current argument between the Mayor and his own Police Commissioner, who still refuses to enforce his "mandatory evacuation" order.

Governor Blanco's ineptitude and indecisiveness was appalling. Her direct orders blocked the Red Cross's heroic effort to pre-position desperately needed supplies at the Superdome before it was cut off by the rising flood waters as well. Attempts by the Mayor, the Governor, and The New Orleans Times-Picayune -- which had extensively reported on the state's and city's similar failures on previous occasions -- to blame the Federal FEMA efforts for failing in its role in the immediate aftermath of Katrina are patently ridiculous.

Under white and black governments alike, New Orleans has always been one of the most corrupt cities in one of the most corrupt states in the United States. Three Louisiana officials were indicted for stealing emergency relief funds prior to Katrina. It should surprise no one that the Sicilian Mafia opened operations in New Orleans before it had a presence in New York.

Those who dream of the perfectibility of human institutions through increasingly, compulsorily collective government will always attack the highest levels of government when it does fail. Republicans and Democrats alike have created huge institutions like the Departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development, and now Homeland Security, built on dreams that can never meet the excessive demands placed upon them.

If we are to learn anything from the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, we will have to review the more practical expectations of the Framers of our Federal system. Local and state government are the primary responders. To keep their powers and responsibility intact the Federal Government is a resource they must administer wisely and decisively. Focusing on the habitual incoherence of Bush Administration communications is beside the point. There is no excuse for ignoring the key failures of local and state government in facing the challenge of Hurricane Katrina. Doing so will only ensure the next disaster.

Very nice, but there's no way the MSM will stop lying about Team Dubya when it would require them to tell the truth about black male and white female Democrats. Too many designated victim classes to protect for the Truth to be allowed free reign.

RatherGate: One Year Later

Power Line pats themselves on the back with regard to their leading the charge in blowing the lid off the CBS News and Dan Rather's nasty Big Lie smear against Dubya using forged documents as their smoking gun.

Demonstrating the power of the medium, within twelve hours after Scott did his original post, Drudge reported that CBS News executives were meeting to discuss the crisis.

Have things changed in the ensuing year? Well, sure. I think the MSM are more careful about documents now, and perhaps about other claims that can readily be fact-checked. My own impression, though, is that, far from having ameliorated since last year, the liberal bias of the MSM has, if anything, worsened. I think the fact that alternative media now exist has prompted some reporters and editors to abandon even the pretense of objectivity.

Still, the world hasn't been quite the same since "The Sixty-First Minute" and the many efforts by other bloggers--and above all, as we always emphasize, their readers--on that fateful day exactly one year ago, and it never will be.

From Air ScameriKKKa and Able Danger to revealing the truth of the failures of the Louisiana governor and New Orleans mayor in the Katrina disaster while the MSM has been furiously trying to make Dubya the scapegoat for the existance of weather itself, the Blogosphere has been a crucial source of Truth against the Big Lies of the fascist Left.

Where is PETA when THIS is happening?!?

Game over, folks. The terrorists have won.


This dog is either gay or "special".


This one wants to be put out of its misery.


This one is thinking, "If only I had a thumb and a gun."

The Huffington Post Is Hiring!

Greg Gutfeld has the job questionaire. Sample bits:

Do you have a black and white picture of yourself, with your chin resting
comfortably on your fist? When you stare at this picture, do you get a
warm fuzzy feeling, not unlike urinating down your leg?

SECTION 2: DISASTER THINKING

-Do you believe that no one can voice support of the IRAQ war UNLESS they are willing to serve in it?
-YET when it came to the flood, you readily assumed an expertise in crisis management within hours of the disaster?
-And only so you could heave blame at Bush like a monkey flinging his own feces?

A man wants to date his sister. Does this offend you?
-yes, it does. I’m fairly tolerant of many things, but not incest.
-No, not at all. Centuries from now we'll look back at this time with embarrassment - a time when we thought incest was "wrong."...And lets face it: Screwing your sibling guarantees a sex partner who knows you better than anyone. PLUS: NO PROM-NIGHT WORRIES ABOUT MEETING HER FATHER.

HUFFPO QUICK QUIZ!: Could you have predicted that the cause of a lifetime - making Cindy Sheehan the sympathetic icon of our times - could be so easily dropped once we found better dead bodies than Casey to use against the President?

Are you still owed money by Air America?
Is Al Franken not returning your calls?

Do you have dreadlocks?
And you’re white?
Do you have a henna tattoo, a charity band around your wrist, and an eyebrow ring?
Do you celebrate "individuality" above all?
And you're pushing 40?

Are you into global justice?
Have you tried to unionise sweatshop workers in China?
Have you helped organize sex workers in Bangkok?
and you actually got three back to your hotel room for sixty bucks?

The Post-Katrina Democrats

Hugh Hewitt sums it up nicely:

Slowly, ever so slowly, MSM is figuring out what "both Republican and Democratic strategists said yesterday [that] the opposition party is in danger of overplaying its hand. The harsh rhetoric, the strategists said, could create a backlash among the public and engender sympathy for a president who has been on the defensive much of the past week."

The prospect of these Democrats in power is quite troubling, with their MoveOn.org corps, Cindy Sheehan camp followers, bile-bloated bloggers and dyspeptic leaders like Nancy Pelosi and now Hillary spinning like a top.

It is becoming impossible to imagine the Democrats actually governing, so relentlessly furious are they in every endeavor.

Patrick Leahy wheezing and then shouting demands on Tuesday as to why the supplies weren't delivered to the Superdome was followed by Wednesday's confirmation that the Red Cross was blocked from doing so by the Louisiana state government, and the country has to ask itself --do we really want this blusterer in charge of Judiciary?

When Senator Reid sends a letter to Homeland Security Committee Chair Susan Collins that includes the questions ""How much time did the president spend dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation?" and "Why didn't President Bush immediately return to Washington from his vacation?", you know that the Dems have decided that no matter the facts of the situation, they will try and use their allies in the MSM to turn this into an assault on Bush.

Which again leads to the question: Who could want these people in charge of anything -whether the House, the Senate or the Presidency? The greatest natural disaster in the nation's history, with hundreds of thousands of Americans uprooted and their lives literaly blown apart, and the Dems are looking for a political foothold --even though it has become obvious that their central complaint of "slow response" is the direct result of their party's chief executive's incompetence!

The political aftermath of Katrina is indeed significance. It has revealed the sound of the Democrats digging deeper and deeper into the hole they have been five years in the making.

Bush Derangement Syndrome is an ugly thing, innit? That's what happens when you live in a fantasy land built from lies and hate.

Stupid Computer User Tricks

For my geek homies, a tale of self-inflicted woe that'll make you go "whoa".

L.A.'s Thwarted Terror Spree

Lost in the shuffle of Katrina news, word of a domestic Islamic terror operation. Scary bit: They weren't foreign Arabs.

As if New Orleans didn't have enough problems, here comes Michael Moore.

The corpulent f*cktard and lifetime winner of the Joseph Goebbels Big Lie Trophy...



...is “seriously considering” turning the devastating storm and its aftermath into a documentary, which should be another steaming pile of liberal pornography, exonerating his fellow travellers who prevented the Red Cross from taking aid to the Superdome and blaming Dubya for everything, including my spilling coffee at work today.

Iraqi Scum Kill Real Hero

I think this is the guy I saw profiled on Nightline a few weeks back. He was defusing the bombs that the Religion of Peace was leaving around to kill infidels and whoever else was around. He died, not by a bomb blast, but a gunshot.

These are the heroes of Iraq, not lying mad cows like Cindy "15 minutes are up" Sheehan.

The Price of Survival

Wizbang runs the numbers:

12 cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew (540 calories/can): $23.88
10 gallons store-brand springwater: $5.50
5 cheap Dollar Store flashlights: $5.00
5 4-packs of batteries for flashlights: $5.00
Cheap AM/FM Radio from Dollar Store: $5.00
5 4-packs of batteries for radio from Dollar Store: $5.00
Manual can opener from Dollar Store: $1.00

All prices from Hannaford Markets and Family Dollar.

Total expenditure for survival kit: $50.38

Surviving disaster despite best advice of Kos, Atrios, and the rest: Priceless

A comment down below adds:

Don't forget, you need a $200 shotgun and $30 of ammunition so you can manage to keep all that other stuff.

Multi-Millionaire Celebs Support Kanye West's Racial Lies.

And all this time we thought Ben Affleck was the dumb one.

Jay-Z, Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Matt Damon are among a host of stars who have applauded Kanye West for his public attack on Us President George W. Bush on Friday. During an appearance on A Concert For Hurricane Relief - a live telethon broadcast across America - West broke away from his script to voice his disgust at the media's portrayal of the Gulf Region's African-Americans and to slam the slow delivery of aid. But the biggest stir of all came when West boldly declared, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

West's Def Jam colleague Jay-Z says, "I'm backing Kanye 100 per cent. This is America. You should be able to say what you want to say. We have freedom of speech. (The slow response to the disaster) is really numbing. You can't believe it's happening in America. You wonder, what's going on? Why were people so slow to react? I don't understand it."

Combs notes, "I think he spoke from his heart. He spoke what a lot of people feel... It ain't adding up, man. It's not making sense. If the reporters can get there and you all can get there with microphones, somebody should be able to get there with food."

Damon adds, "This guy with his moment on live television made a statement that hopefully now Bush will come out and address, because he doesn't have to address anything else... The White House Press Corp, they should all have their credentials taken away. Not one of them's an honest journalist. Not one of them asked a question of the guy."

Meanwhile, actress Susan Sarandon has a slightly different take on West's comments: "I don't think that's an original thought, but it's probably true."

OK, so we've got a record company CEO, a multi-media mogul with music and clothing empires, an Oscar-winning short guy and an aging Oscar-winning Communist sexpot mistaking the "freedom of speech" with a "license to lie". It's also pretty rich when self-made megamillionaire black men play the race and victim cards. My old boss was a black man who asked me, [i]"Where are the white Russell Simmons and P. Diddys - guys with huge success in multiple businesses?"[/i] I had no answer. Oprah? Tiger? You guys got any answers?

Even the Jedi-hating dumbass calls this crap out in "An Obscene Charge":

PERHAPS the gravest weakness of contemporary liberalism is its tendency toward preening vanity — the regrettable undercurrent that suggests the views liberals espouse demonstrate just how much better, kinder, more thoughtful, more large-hearted and more caring they are than those who might think differently about policy.

On no subject is this preening vanity more evident than when it comes to race, and the preening has been especially pronounced in the past week.

It is now generally accepted in liberal-left circles that the federal government's response to the New Orleans horror was not rapid enough because the majority of the victims were poor — and especially because they were black.

This is just about as incendiary and horrible a thing to say as can be imagined under these circumstances, and given the circumstances one might have thought a little bit of evidence would be required to offer some support for it. There has been none offered...

But his opponents on the liberal left are not satisfied with criticizing his management or his rhetoric. Instead, they are implicitly accusing him of race manslaughter. First he was deemed negligent, owing to his conservative federalism, and then he was judged an assassin, owing to his conservative law-and-order instincts.

Indeed, the very confused rapper Kanye West, after accusing the president of failing to care about black people because he thought the early response was too slow, then turned around and said the administration's efforts to save the suffering remnant of New Orleans from the predatory gangs that had taken over was an effort to kill black people.

West's remarks have been praised in many quarters on the liberal left. The fact that so many people feel totally free to say such things without embarrassment or shame — to state as fact that the deaths of untold thousands were the result not just of confusion, incompetence or the overwhelming power of nature but because of racist attitudes on the part of uncaring white people — is simply astounding in this day and age.

The motive force behind such disgusting ideas is the paternalistic idea that black people in America exist in a state of fixed victimization from which they can and will only emerge when white people "care" enough about them to raise them up and make them whole.

People used to joke about "white liberal guilt" when it came to race. But there's no guilt here. White liberals feel righteous because they believe they are faultless here — that they and only they care about suffering. They are instead assigning blame to other white people, white people who disagree with their ideology of victimization.

And so they use the basest slander at a time of tragedy to make themselves feel just peachy about their enlightened, loving and deeply moral beliefs. Well, isn't that special.

That's why I hammer on the fact that liberalism is a racist/sexist/fascist ideology. When a black person with more money than 99.44% of white will ever see in their bank accounts lies about how oppressed minorities are, it really makes you wonder what the hell went haywire in their heads?

Somewhere, Martin and Malcolm are crying...

Air ScameriKKKa Update: Al Franken's Lying Lies (and the Smoking Guns That Prove Them!)

Michelle Malkin has the goods (again) including copies of Al's signature on financial papers he claims to know nothing about:



According to a November 2004 settlement agreement between former Air American head honchos Evan Cohen and Rex Sorensen and Air America's current owners and investors at Piquant LLC, Al Franken was smack dab in the middle of negotiations over the debts owed by the liberal radio network--including the Gloria Wise loan. The agreement was signed to clear the decks in advance of the questionable asset transfer from Air America's old owners, Progress Media and Radio Free America, to Piquant. (This is the transfer being challenged by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc. as a "fraudulent conveyance," which we first reported exclusively in the first installment in our investigative blog series, "A Trail of Debts.")

Far from being an innocent party with no knowledge of Air America's money woes, Franken was a signatory to the agreement. The document, published here for the first time, exposes how Franken misled his listeners and the press about his knowledge of the charity loan.

Anyone think the MSM will stop trying to convince people that Dubya was shooting black people from the open doorway of a low-circling Air Force One when surveying the New Orleans flood damage and start looking into their own?

Didn't think so.

"Niggardly" 2005 Edition

More proof that the Klan were pikers at destroying blacks compared to the liberal-fascist outfits like the NAACP. The Gary NAACP wants the Indiana BMV chief to apologize for remarks, namely the term "city mentality". Priorities? Nah, nevermind.

1. In case you don't know, Gary makes Detroit look like Las Vegas. I'm not kidding. It's THAT bad.

B. If you don't get this post's title, do a little research into past ignoble examples of grievance oversensitivity.

Know Your Starships!

Size comparisons of various sci-fi movie and TV show ships. Geek out!

A New Low for the MSM?

As far back as 2003 I've known that Dubya crippling lack of basic articulation skills was going to make it difficult for him to explain critical things, like the War on Islamofascism, Social Security reform and just about anything really important where he would have to outmaneuver the MSM who are the de facto propaganda arm for the liberal-fascist-Dems to get the facts out.

Reagan had nothing in his column - no Congress, no media support for there was no Blogosphere or Rush or nothing then - yet he was able to reach out thru the media and get the tax cuts and other agenda pieces that ended the Cold War and saved the economy from Carter's total failures. However, with control of Congress and alternative outlets multiplying to get the Truth out, he's foundering and his mush-mouthed non-talking skills and his fatal willingness to turn the other cheek are giving the MSM their best shot yet to destroy him because - as I've said a zillion times before - well-told lies trump badly-told truths most of the time.

Power Line's piece "A New Low for the MSM?" undersells the headline and misses the point that trying to pick the MSM's worst misbehavior is like picking which gulag camp was the worst; they were ALL pretty bad.

The mainstream media's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the disasters in New Orleans is a disgrace, possibly the worst instance yet of media bias. Insane claims by left-wing nuts that President Bush botched the recovery effort on purpose so as to kill black people are repeated by the MSM in a chin-stroking mode, as if to say, "It's an interesting question--they might be on to something." Meanwhile, no one points out that it was President Bush who implored Governor Blanco to issue a first-ever mandatory evacuation order for the city, an action by the President that probably saved tens of thousands of lives.

Ahem, John - I mention it.

Similarly, the media yammmer on and on about the allegedly slow federal response to the hurricane, without noting that the Governor of Louisiana has the power to call out the National Guard. Accusations that lawlessness and looting in New Orleans are somehow the federal government's fault are repeated endlessly; hardly anyone bothers to criticize the looters and other criminals themselves. And where is the outrage that should be directed toward the New Orleans Police Department? They were the authorities on the scene, and they, under the direction of the city's Mayor--who had an emergency plan in place, but apparently made no attempt to implement it--had the responsibility to maintain law and order. Yet some policemen reportedly joined in the looting, while a great many others turned tail and abandoned their responsibilities.

But it's hard to defend the administration when the administration won't defend itself. Yesterday Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff declared that the feds are now in control of New Orleans, but refused to defend the government's performance so far:

Chertoff defended the job of FEMA Director Michael Brown and declined to get into a discussion about whether the government moved quickly and forcefully enough to deal with the catastrophe. He shrugged off suggestions that the demand for National Guard troops in Iraq had depleted the numbers available to respond to the crisis.

"I think when we go back and look at it lot of things worked well and some things didn't work well," he said.

That simply isn't good enough. I understand the administration's problem: it's hard to mount a defense without pointing out the scandalous performance of the state and local authorities who were responsible for emergency preparation and for the initial response to the hurricane. But if the administration thinks it can ride out the current news cycle as it has passively ridden out so many news cycles in the past, it's crazy. As Chertoff himself said yesterday:

We need to prepare the country for what's coming ... we are going to uncover people who died hiding in the houses, maybe got caught in floods, it is going to be as ugly a scene as you can imagine.

Yes, that's right. And each new horror, and each painful step in the reconstruction of New Orleans over the years to come, will be the occasion for more Bush-bashing. This story is never going to die a natural death, and it is probably too late already for the administration to combat the media-driven impression that the disaster is somehow its fault.

I've often criticized the administration for not responding forcefully enough to unfair attacks by the far left and the media--often, for not responding at all. But this time the administration's habit of quietly riding out the storm could have incalculable costs.

I'm parting company here with two people whose judgment I respect. Michelle Malkin has recommended that President Bush fire FEMA head Michael Brown...firing Brown now would accomplish nothing but to uselessly fan the flames of hysteria.

Hugh Hewitt, meanwhile, has advised conservatives to "turn the other cheek"...I think he's wrong; the MSM, in full support-the-Democrats mode, is daily making respectable even the wackiest attacks on the administration. Of course, I'm not by nature a cheek-turning sort, but I think that has too often been the administration's approach. This time, it could be fatal.

Meanwhile, the insanity continues. The Democrats know that in order to defend itself against their onslaught, the administration will have to criticize the people who really bungled the job--the Governor of Louisiana, the Mayor of New Orleans, and other local officials. So, earlier this morning Senator Mary Landrieu threatened President Bush with violence if he does any such thing:

Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu threatened President Bush with physical violence this morning on ABC's Sunday morning news program "This Week". "If one person criticizes our sheriffs, or says one more thing, including the President of the United States, he will hear from me - one more word about it after this show airs and I - I might likely have to punch him - literally," says Landrieu.

For the first time, the Democrats and their allies in the MSM (to the extent one draws the distinction) believe that they have the administration on the run, in a way that could destroy President Bush. Destroying the President is the goal they have pursued passionately since January 2001. In that regard, nothing has changed in 4 1/2 years. The administration, it seems to me, has two choices: defend itself, or suffer crippling damage from which it likely will never recover.

Here's how Dubya can save himself: When he goes back to NO tomorrow, he makes a statement that reminds us that he was the one who called for the evacuation, yet the locals screwed it up and he wants to know why it wasn't done. Next, he blows the whistle on the incompetent Mommy Guv blocking Federalization because while she tries to CYA, he can't help the people and that's wrong. Finally, he goes into bite-lip-feel-pain mode and talks about how helpless he's felt about what's happened but was powerless to prevent because the local morons wouldn't listen before or let him help after.

That's what he should do. I'd bet money that he won't. His own f*cking fault what happens next. He can't expect the VWRC to play defense for him.

Louisiana Guv Would Rather CYA Than Help LA.

From this Washington Post story the news that while the MSM/fascist Dem Axis is pushing the "Dubya Duz Nuthin'" meme, the locals are stymieing the Federal aide efforts.

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor.

Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday, three state and federal officials said. As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said.

UPDATE: The WaPo corrects (ht: KJL) - A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26.

"The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana," White House spokesman Dan Bartlett said. "The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana."

Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.

As noted below, Dubya called this incompetent woman and urged her to start the evacuation on Sunday, yet she did nothing and is now acting to protect her fat ass instead of helping her people. Yet, Dubya is getting blamed for what he's being prevented from doing.

A Corner e-mailer noted the irony:

If Bush was a Dictator things would have gone smoother:

- He wouldn't have had to ASK Gov. Blanco to order a mandatory evacuation, he would have done it himself.

- He wouldn't have had to ASK Gov. Blanco to send in her National Guard, he would have done it himself.

- He wouldn't have to ASK Gov. Blanco to let the feds come in and run the show. (below)

If Bush was a dictator he could have FORCED residents to evacuate at gunpoint. He would be giving orders to the Governor, not requests. It may come as news to the moveon.org crowd, but BUSH IS NOT A DICTATOR!

Next week, I'll be explaining the liberal-fascist-Dems belief in what I call the "Emperor Wizard" form of leader. Stay tuned.

Michelle Malkin: MEMO TO BUSH: FIRE MICHAEL BROWN

When your side is telling you someone needs to be sacked, listen.

Although the delay was not entirely the fault of the Bush Administration, Brown's complacency clearly didn't help. And his bumbling statements after the hurricane struck have not inspired confidence.

This is not the time to give a weak performer the benefit of the doubt. The FEMA director's role in the ongoing recovery effort is too important to be entrusted to a clueless political hack with such poor judgment.

Rather than praise Michael Brown, Bush should fire him.

Unfortunately, Dubya values loyalty over competency too often for his - and the country's - own good. While the media jackals are howling for Team Dubya blood - Tim Russert's first question to Chertoff this morning was, "Will you resign?" - SAYING the poor response isn't acceptable and then DOING nothing to remediate the causes means you're talking loud, but saying nothing.

Of course, this is the same dumbass who gave George "Slam Dunk" Tennet a medal instead of a cap to the dome.

More interesting question: If Darths Rove and Cheney are controlling things from behind the curtain, WTF is going on now, leaving Dubya looking weak? Where have they been lately?

William H. Rehnquist R.I.P.

Details here.

This throws the whole Supreme Court picture sideways as the Dems jihad to smear Sandy's replacement, John Roberts, was scheduled to start on Tuesday. The Left has been filling their diapers over losing O'Connor and been going crazy trying to find dirt on Roberts - including digging into his children's sealed adoption records (Have they no sense of decency?) - because they desperately need the Court to enact their fascist agenda by fiat, since they can't pass anything thru the democratic method. (Ironic, no?)

They've been carping about Dubya not nominating a wishy-washy center-left activist, as if the vacant seat is reserved for only alike judges. Where this causes problems is with Rehnquist passing, a solid conservative seat is open meaning they've got to decide whether they want to use all their ammo on destroying Roberts or save something for Rehnquist's replacement.

Decisions, decisions.

What's In Your Laptop Bag?

Only geeks will appreciate this, but for them it's a hoot! LOL!

What Ever Happened To Sir Mix-A-Lot?

After he blew up with that big butt song, he had another great CD called "Chief Boot Knocka", but the one after that, "Return of the Bumpasaurus", was so whack - abandoning his witty rhymes and beats for G-Funk retreads - I sold it and that was it for him.

The last I heard, he was doing something called Symposium with the guys from Presidents of the United States of America (?!?!?) and the demos played on NPR were sweet, but they never got a deal and POTUSA are back doing new music.

Reason I axe is that "One Time's Got No Case" just rolled by on the iTunes Party Shuffle and whenever I hear his old stuff, I wonder where he went. I knew he was doing some acting and Chris Rock had a brilliant line about him, but what's new?

Any info, post it in comments. Thanks.